Cherry

Beauty grows on trees

Cherry is a hard, often reddish, stylish wood species. This wood species has a fine pattern, with a straight grain. The heartwood varies from deep red to reddish-brown. Few wood species undergo as great a colour shift as cherry. The wood darkens dramatically to give a dark reddish-brown colour. Kährs cherry floors create a warm, homely feel.

Japan celebrate the flowering of the cherry

Anyone who has ever stood beneath a cherry tree, in full bloom, knows that beauty really can grow on trees. Every year in Japan, people hold a special celebration — the Sakura — to greet the arrival of spring, when the parks are filled with people picnicking under the cherry blossoms.

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An extensive family

There are around 400 species of cherry, both trees and bushes. The cherry tree can grow up to 15-30m tall and has a diameter of up to 1.2m. The bark on young trees is thin and almost birch-like, but over time it takes on a more cracked appearance, a little like a burnt crisp. The leaves are scattered and slightly oval, with fluted edges. The beautiful, fragrant flowers grow in small clumps of around 40.

Cherry is a stone fruit. The stone sits inside a red to yellowish-red flesh which not only we like to eat! A lot of birds guzzle the berries and spread the cherry for miles around.

Like birch, cherry is known as a pioneer tree, growing after storms, forest fires or deforestation.

Natural buffet

Cherry trees are part of the same family as plum and other fruit trees, such as apricots, nectarines and sweet almonds. The berries are best eaten raw, but they can also be used to make compote, jam or candied for use in cocktails.

Cherry has a high vitamin C content and is used to help with a range of conditions, such as gout and skin problems.

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  • Cherry (Lat. Prunus Serotina)

  • Family: Rose (Lat. Rosaceae)

  • Size: 15-30m. The trunk can grow to around 1.2m in circumference.

  • Origin of Kährs cherry flooring: USA

  • Hardness: Essentially as hard as oak. Hardwearing. Brinell value: 3.6

  • Colour change: Undergoes a strong colour change and darkens dramatically to a dark reddish-brown tone with age.

  • Random fact: Every year, the World Championships in Cherry Stone Spitting take place in Skara, Västergötland. The record is 15.94m!